Properties of Water
Water molecules are this kind of molecule
What is a polar molecule?
This kind of wave is long, low, and out at sea
What is a swell?
No light reaches this zone
What is the deep zone? (Alt: What is the midnight zone?)
This is a measure of how much salt is in a sample of water
What is salinity?
This scientist and philosopher discovered pressure varies with elevation
Who was Blaise Pascal?
This property of water allows light objects to stay on its surface
What is surface tension?
This force causes waves to break
What is friction?
This increases with depth
What is pressure?
These kinds of currents are caused by changes in density
What are deep currents?
Rachel Carson's most famous book
What is Silent Spring?
This property of water describes how its temperature does not easily change
What is its high specific heat?
This is a stronger form of undertow, caused by a narrow sandbar
What is a rip current?
Photosynthesis happens in this zone
What is the surface zone? (Alt: What is the sunlight zone?)
This gas is 60 times more plentiful in the ocean than in the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
These substances, such as DDT, kill insects and other animals
What are pesticides?
Because water dissolves more substances than any other liquid, it is called this
What is Universal Solvent?
This denotes how many waves pass a certain point in a given period of time
What is frequency?
What is the surface zone? (Alt: What is the sunlight zone?)
How much mass is in a given volume
What is density?
What is capillary action?
The monthly change in tides is caused by these two objects' gravitational pulls
What are the moon and the sun?
This zone of the ocean receives some blue and green light, but not much
What is the transition zone? (Alt: what is the twilight zone?)
This causes the currents of the Earth to curve into loops
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This kind of tide has an unusually low difference between high and low tides
What is a neap tide?